These pigs were individually decorated by local artists as a fund-raising initiative for the "Two Tunnels" sustainable transport project (www.twotunnels.org.uk /). They were on public display on the streets of Bath for six months in 2008 and were a great tourist attraction. You can see some of the pigs in their original locations by searching on the keyword "Bladud" and some of the snapshots have comments with links to the pig in the snapshot like this: www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6439&snapshot_id=31294.
The original pig was sculpted by Alan Dun: www.alandun.co.uk and www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11385&snapshot_id=31484.
There are over 100 pigs in total. This pano shows most of them. Sadly for the public, the pigs were sold at public auction. Happily for the Two Tunnels project, they raised a great deal of money. At least one pig sold for tens of thousands of pounds.

Gigapan Comments
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HI I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE BUT I
WILL PROVE MY NOTE IF YOU COUNT THE BIGS FROM THE
RIGHT ,BIG NO 8 WHICH HAVE THE FACE OF CLOWN AND
NO 9 WHICH HAD A FACE OF DOG YOU WILL GOING TO SEE
A WOMAN TWICE AND A MAN BESIDE HER AND INFRONT OF
THEM TWICE TOO IN A DIFFERENT POSION . THANKS

Hi Judy. Thanks for your kind words. The
phenomenon you noticed is more or less unavoidable
with the gigapan technology because the individual
photos that make up the image (238 in the case of
this gigapan) are not taken at the same time, so
if people move then they appear in the image more
than once. I am in the image at least four times
(deliberately). You get strange things like people
with three arms too (check the snapshots). I could
have asked everyone to stand still for twenty
minutes while I took my photo, but I'm not
sure they would have agreed :-) Actually, many
people consider the multiple arms/ears/heads thing
part of the charm of gigapanography.

FIRST I CONGRATULATE YOU ABOUT THIS AMAZING PHOTO
BUT BY YOUR TEC THERE IS A FALSE PHOTO IN THE
PHOTO OF Farewell to King Bladud's Pigs IN THE
LEFT THE IMAGE IS SHOW SOME PEOPLE TWICE IN THE
SAME PIC SO PLEASE CHECK IT

It has now only been four months since this
GigaPan appeared and I was wondering if you have
thought about putting this image on T-Shirts? If
it ever happens, I'd like one that is
entitled, Hogarth Discovers Bath.

The pano here on gigapan.org looks pretty
good... in fact very good; HOWEVER, the view in
Google Earth is probably the best quality 360
panorama I have seen on Google Earth... you set a
new standard for all of us to try to reach...

Houston Cow Parade: This reminds me of an event
here in Houston a few years ago... instead of
pigs, we had cows, sometimes with horns. The
sculptor was Pascal Knapp and he has done a cow
show in London. Here is the URL: houston.cowparade.com/cow/gallery&
nbsp;There
are 21 pages of cows, which were scattered all of
the greater Houston Area. And the London link: london.cowparade.com /Whoever the artist is
that created the Bath Pigs, did a fantastic job as
illustrated in your Gigapan.